[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 61 (Friday, March 29, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19296-19297]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-07358]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-12390; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: History Colorado, formerly
Colorado Historical Society, Denver, CO
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: History Colorado, formerly Colorado Historical Society, has
completed an inventory of human remains, in consultation with the
appropriate Indian tribes, and has determined that there is no cultural
affiliation between the human remains and any present-day Indian
tribes. Representatives of any Indian tribe that believes itself to be
culturally affiliated with the human remains may contact History
Colorado. Disposition of the human remains to the Indian tribes stated
below may occur if no additional requestors come forward.
DATES: Representatives of any Indian tribe that believes it has a
cultural affiliation with the human remains should contact History
Colorado at the address below by April 29, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Sheila Goff, History Colorado, 1200 Broadway, Denver, CO
80203, telephone (303) 866-4531, email Sheila.goff@state.co.us.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25
U.S.C. 3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains under
the control of History Colorado, Denver, CO. The human remains were
removed from Suncor Energy USA Pipeline Company property, Adams County,
CO.
This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and
43 CFR 10.11(d). The determinations in this notice are the sole
responsibility of the museum, institution, or Federal agency that has
control of the Native American human remains. The National Park Service
is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Consultation
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by History
Colorado professional staff in consultation with representatives of the
Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Cheyenne and
Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma (previously listed as the Cheyenne-Arapaho
Tribes of Oklahoma); Comanche Nation, Oklahoma; Crow Tribe of Montana;
Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota;
Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico; Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma;
Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico;
Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation,
Montana; Oglala Sioux Tribe (previously listed as the Oglala Sioux
Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota); Ohkay Owingeh, New
Mexico (previously listed as the Pueblo of San Juan); Pawnee Nation of
Oklahoma; Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New
Mexico; Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Southern
Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; Standing
Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; Three Affiliated Tribes of
the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; Ute Mountain Tribe of the
Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah; Wichita and
Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco & Tawakonie), Oklahoma; and
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico. The Apache Tribe of
Oklahoma; Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; and the Rosebud Sioux
Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota, were invited to
consult but did not participate. Hereafter all tribes listed above are
referred to as ``The Consulted and Invited Tribes.''
History and description of the remains
In March 2012, human remains representing, at minimum, one
individual were removed from Suncor Energy USA Pipeline Company
property in Adams County, CO. The human remains were discovered while
Suncor was excavating a trench as part of mitigation efforts concerning
high levels of benzene in the soil. The Adams County Coroner initially
believed this was a forensic case and removed the remains with the
assistance of a Metro State College forensic anthropologist. The burial
investigation and extensive osteological analysis determined that the
remains were of a middle-aged male of Native American ancestry found in
a secondary burial and of no forensic interest. The remains were then
transferred to History Colorado, where they are referred to as Office
of Archaeology and Historic Preservation No. 288. No known individuals
were identified. No associated funerary objects are present.
At the time of the excavation and removal of these human remains,
the land from which the remains and objects were removed was not the
tribal land of any Indian tribe. In August 2012, History Colorado
consulted with all Indian tribes who are recognized as aboriginal to
the area from which these Native American human remains were removed.
These tribes are the Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation,
Wyoming; Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma (previously listed as
the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma); and the Northern Cheyenne
Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana. None of
these Indian tribes agreed to accept control of the human remains. They
requested in writing that this individual be dispostioned according to
the Process for Consultation, Transfer and Reburial of Culturally
Unidentifiable Native American Human Remains Originating From
Inadvertent Discoveries on Colorado State and Private Lands (Process).
Consultation with the additional tribes listed under Consultation in
this notice was conducted October 2012 to January 2013 to determine
disposition. Under the Process, the Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the
Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, and the Ute Mountain Tribe of the
Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah agreed to accept
disposition of the human remains.
In 2006, History Colorado, in partnership with the Colorado
Commission of Indian Affairs, Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern
Ute Reservation, Colorado, and the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute
Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah, conducted tribal
consultations among the tribes with ancestral ties to the State of
Colorado to develop the process for disposition of culturally
unidentifiable Native American human remains and associated funerary
objects originating from inadvertent discoveries on Colorado State and
private lands. As a result of the consultation, a process was
developed, Process for Consultation, Transfer, and Reburial of
Culturally Unidentifiable Native American Human Remains and Associated
Funerary Objects Originating From Inadvertent Discoveries on Colorado
State and Private Lands, (2008, unpublished, on file with the Colorado
Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation). The remains described
above were recovered in the Great Plains Consultation Region,
established by the Process, and tribes consulted are those who have
expressed
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their wishes to be notified of discoveries in this region.
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review
Committee (Review Committee) is responsible for recommending specific
actions for disposition of culturally unidentifiable human remains. On
November 3-4, 2006, the Process was presented to the Review Committee
for consideration. A January 8, 2007, letter on behalf of the Review
Committee from the Designated Federal Officer transmitted the
provisional authorization to proceed with the Process upon receipt of
formal responses from the Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico, and the
Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma, subject to forthcoming conditions
imposed by the Secretary of the Interior. On May 15-16, 2008, the
responses from the Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico and the Kiowa
Indian Tribe of Oklahoma were submitted to the Review Committee. On
September 23, 2008, the Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and
Parks, as the designee for the Secretary of the Interior, transmitted
the authorization for the disposition of culturally unidentifiable
human remains according to the Process and NAGPRA, pending publication
of a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register. This
notice fulfills that requirement.
Determinations made by History Colorado
Officials of History Colorado have determined that:
Based on osteological analysis and burial context, the
human remains are Native American.
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described
in this notice represent the physical remains of one individual of
Native American ancestry.
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a relationship of shared
group identity cannot be reasonably traced between the Native American
human remains and any present-day Indian tribe.
Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(2)(ii) and the Process, the
disposition of the human remains may be to the Southern Ute Indian
Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, and the Ute Mountain
Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Representatives of any Indian tribe that believes itself to be
culturally affiliated with the human remains or any other Indian tribe
that believes it satisfies the criteria in 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1) should
contact Sheila Goff, History Colorado, 1200 Broadway, Denver, CO 80203,
telephone (303) 866-4531, email Sheila.goff@state.co.us, by April 29,
2013. Disposition of the human remains to the Southern Ute Indian Tribe
of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, and the Ute Mountain Tribe
of the Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah may
proceed after that date if no additional requestors come forward.
History Colorado is responsible for notifying The Consulted and
Invited Tribes that this notice has been published.
Dated: February 19, 2013.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2013-07358 Filed 3-28-13; 8:45 am]
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